Yes, it's getting more complicated. Yes, there's a whole ecosystem being built around it, and the line between language and ecosystem is blurry. And indeed, the

Yes, it's getting more complicated. Yes, there's a whole ecosystem being built around it, and the line between language and ecosystem is blurry. And indeed, there's a hidden expectation for any Python developer to buy into the whole ecosystem. But that's just a symptom of a mature programming language that's used in a variety of complicated scenarios. You don't have to do it all, and no-one is forcing you. You can always write your one-off script without black, flake8, type hinting, or anything of the sort. If it's just your script then no-one will even know. On the other hand, if you want your code to be part of the larger ecosystem, then you're expected to write it in a conformant way (e.g. pep8 formatting). And that's a good thing!